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No, they're making a choice between the long-term negative effects of not losing weight naturally, vs the possibility of long-term negative effects of using artificial methods. This isn't polemic, as even things as basic as birth control and advil have negative long term effects.

It is a waste of time and a growing place of toxicity a smugness, but it is not very different from the rest of the internet.

Anything that's needed to be given up, how do we estimate it?

The good news is, if you are right about nuclear being safe, then I will benefit from it.

If you are wrong, I will be too busy being dead to remember that I was right!

"therefore we need everyone to eat more big macs"

In what world can you convince me that nuclear is safe when we have Chernobyl and Fukushima? Like are we going to compared it to coal or something of the sort?

When nuclear fails, which it will, through accident or terrorism, it fails forever, catastrophically

Why cant we all live off solar and wind? Why must you have nuclear?

Why should the power needs of certain people be put above the safety of giant land areas?

I am happy to pay a premium for technologies that are less efficient but safer.

When did it become acceptable to say that society needs to pursue as much electricity production as possible, all risks be damned?

"Lessons from McDonalds-- chemicals and fats must be well regulated, not ditched"

Or in the case of a natural disaster, not going anywhere on account of not being able to charge it ;)

Because, much like their laptops and phones, the people who are buying them aren't "optimizing for reliability", but rather "showing off"

which turns out to be a pretty profitable venture from Apple's point of view

There is honestly not very much revolutionary about Bitcoin as a system in the real world, because it is so burdensome to use[1] that you cannot easily use it for facilitating financial transactions without trusting a middleman[2].

The result is that you must use centralized exchanges[3], and consume much more electricity than needed in the process.

The decentralized, cryptographically secure, append only ledger is pretty cool though.

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[1] HDD/SDD storage space for the blockchain itself, securing your wallet

[2] Certain Chinese individuals with large amounts of computational power apparently don't count as middlemen

[3] JP Morgan et al

something the government need not do is this

So all of the software engineers out there being paid for their labor by companies flush with cash are... not, being paid? in your mind?

Once the evil rich pigs have lots of bread, more than even they can eat, do they then not start using it to purchase labor from the starving poor?

For me it's about 4 hours